Re: [IxDA Discuss] CMS compared (Was: Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad)

Hi Santiago and Jeff. Thanks for your replies. Jeff, I've barely skimmed the Joomla site but will take a closer look. Santiago: Actually, you've understood my problem exactly. I chose WordPress initially because I thought the best solution for me would be to modify an existing theme, and WP is rep

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration

On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Christian Crumlish wrote: I also accept that language drifts and even terms of art can change and the "success" of the pattern meme is going to tend to lead to watering it down, but I'm nonetheless going to try to hold the line on this distinction for now, as

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Implementing I/A and web strategy when you don't have control of the content

Brian - thanks for the thorough and thoughtful response. The "we'll go to three" levels of navigation is one that I'm wrestling with right now. We're using a similar criteria as our first cut, and then diving deeper or coming up where appropriate. Like anything I expect, determining where existing

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Implementing I/A and web strategy when you don'thave control of the content

Hi Todd: I've seen many projects like this one, and there are some good patterns I bet I and others can share. But first: the big thing you didn't include is what the goals are. You've mentioned a series of constraints, but not the goals. A redesign can mean 50 different things. As long as ever

[IxDA Discuss] Job - Senior Information Architect - SFO, CA - Recruiter

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[IxDA Discuss] Job - Senior Interaction Designer - Mobile - Full Time - San Francisco, CA - Recruiter

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Apologies for not bccing !! Re: [Event] Boston IxDA invites you to Designers Anonymous, 7-9pm August 14th, Boston.

Better yet, I propose everyone *come* to the event and Boston IxDA buys a round on the house. I'll bring drink tickets. :-) ~Lisa On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Boston IxDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ever have one of those days? Sincerest apologies for not bccing you on our > latest announc

[IxDA Discuss] [Event] Boston IxDA invites you to Designers Anonymous, 7-9pm August 14th, Boston.

The IxDA Boston crew is rather excited to announce our August event, Boston's Designers Anonymous! a support group for those with user centered issues. After some great 'big picture' presentations at our nanoConference, lets make it more personal and take some time to share what makes each of us

[IxDA Discuss] (Job) Staff User Experience Lead/ IA - NYC - Recruiter

My client, a premier interactive strategy, design, and development agency with major Fortune 500 clients is looking for an Experience Lead to direct the research, usability, and interaction design of their projects. The ideal person is a user experience professional devoted to creating innovative,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CMS compared (Was: Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad)

Elena, I've been researching CMS for a while myself, and have done a few builds to see what kind of flexibility is available. I personally have not touched Drupal, but I did start with a build of Joomla! 1.0 and now have two builds of Joomla! 1.5 in the works, with a third upcoming. I am overall pl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad

I use blogger and Google announced a related product called a "knol" Google states: "One other important difference between Knol and Blogger is that Knol encourages you to reveal your true identity. Knols are meant to be authoritative articles, and, therefore, they have a strong focus on authors an

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Masters Programs in the DC Area

Matthew and David, I graduated from the University of Maryland program at College Park as a Psychology student. I did research with Ben Shneiderman and was part of the human-computer interaction lab even though I was not a computer science student. The lab is composed of people studying different

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web

"Restricted format" approachs (as splitting input in many fields, or worse, using pull-down menus) add: - innecessary keystrokes or clicks and / or - need to move the hand off the keyboard to the mouse and back, and - mental preparation steps (splitting time in hours / minutes) The last two are the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fireworks CS4

Thanks jennifer for having shared with us all the great new features of CS4. Also for your own point of view, which its important as user feedback. Drausio -- On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Jennifer Quigley jenqdesign at jenqdesign.com wrote:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] CMS compared (Was: Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad)

Elena, can you be more specific about WordPress "inflexibility"? Either I am not understanding your problem, or you are dealing with restrictions that are a result from working around an existing template instead of building your own. If you are hosting your own website, you are not constrained to

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fireworks CS4

Thanks jennifer for having shared with us all the great new features of CS4. Also for your own point of view, which its important as user feedback.Drausio Envoyé avec BlackBerry® d'Orange On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Jennifer Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I've been using C

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Implementing I/A and web strategy when you don't have control of the content

I had a very similar political/IA problem a few years ago redesigning an intranet portal for a very large company (120K employees, 42 countries, 18 languages, and extremely distributed content development, including 9000 custom "widgets" we had no control over). To cut to the chase (it was an 18

[IxDA Discuss] Implementing I/A and web strategy when you don't have control of the content

Hi - I'm working on two similar projects, which are site redesigns of entire web presences. The common factor between both is that we have varying ability to alter or change most of the content--or the I/A it supports. For example, consider redesigning NY Times, but only being able to affect th

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad

1 for WordPress. I have used it many times (both the downloadable version and the hosting service version (wordpress.com) I find it especially easy to set up for clients and there are a fantastic array of stunning visual themes available, that are very easy to swap out. As mentioned earlier in

[IxDA Discuss] OSS Design Tools

Since this topic comes up every once in a while, here are two browser-based applications I recently found. Both are free and open (as in beer and in speech). Rapid Rabbit http://rapidrabb.it/en/wiki Rapid prototyping tool which allows you to create links between pages. Good for high level pl

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Physical controls attached to an LCD screen

dang, we TOTALLY could have used this when we were prototyping our automotive headunit . ~Lisa Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsu

[IxDA Discuss] Job - User Interface Design Specialist - Milwaukee, WI - Full Time

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[IxDA Discuss] Drag n Drop Hierarchy Builder Example?

Can anybody provide some examples of drag and drop tools/sites that allow you to customize your own hierarchy by selecting nodes from a sample hierarchy? I want to be able to retain relationships, so ideally the example would do more than allow isolated item selection from tool box. Thanks in a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration

It is really a great resource Matthew, thank you! I am also sharing a video collection of Interface Design patterns - http://www.vimeo.com/album/17554 Good to check and see patterns in action. Regards, Ivan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the ne

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web

Matthijs: I have to respectfully disagree with nearly everything in your post. Ensuring valid input based on process is nearly guaranteed to fail and ultimately would cost far more than implementing my required javascript. I don't believe there is only one group that can tell me what the right c

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web

Hmm … I'm not quite sure I understood your point about hitting hitting zero nine times to enter "0900". If there are two fields/drop-downs, you press tab to enter the field, press "9" (and the field knows that must mean "09" as the first number can't exceed 2), and tab past the minute field, onto t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Physical controls attached to an LCD screen

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:56:13, mirweis SANGIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finally the very creative and forwardthinking firm JazzMutant have > long ago proposed multi-touch screen products that have nothing to > envy to the iPhone. It consist of a touchscreen musical interface > completely reco

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration

Nice. Could be useful alongside books like Tidwell's "designing interfaces" from O'Reilly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31495 We

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web

> The edit box should have supporting javascript to allow somewhat > flexible input. For instance the user should be able to enter the > following values for 7 am: > > 700 > 0700 > 07:00 I think this is the right approach. I'd add "7" and "7:00" to the list of acceptable inputs for 7 am. I think

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration

@Christian Interesting issue about semantics. I chose patterntap partly because of availability of domain names, and its snappy sound. I can see your point though. This isn't really a resource for UI engineers and critical thinkers as much as it is for designers. We took away a lot of the initial

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Physical controls attached to an LCD screen

I have been into electronic music production for 12 years now and always had a geeky tendency to dig into new technologies applied to digital music production. What I can say is that a really striking amount of innovations have always occurred in this field and the computer assisted music producti

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad

I recently migrated from typepad.com to wordpress.com, and although I feel slightly more constrained than before as in not being able to add Javascripts and such, there is so much more functionality in wordpress.com versus typepad.com that this convinced me to do the switch, after some serious tes

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pattern Tap : Interface Design Inspiration

> This is a wonderful resource! I will put my pattern-geek hat on for a moment, though, to say that I'm not entirely comfortable with the way the term pattern is sometimes used to mean "gallery of examples." Don't get me wrong, I love galleries of examples. They are awesome. -xian- I agree with

[IxDA Discuss] CMS compared (Was: Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad)

Thanks for raising this issue, Tiago. I'm in the process of designing a simple personal website, basically in blog format but on a domain I own, and I'm paying for hosting. I started out with Wordpress but got fed up with its inflexibility. I've started again with Drupal. Before I invest too mu

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Physical controls attached to an LCD screen

Fred Beecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the next step? Apple has an old patent on another virtual/physical I/O concept: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/11/16.5.shtml -- Kontra http://counternotions.com Welcome to t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Entering military time on web

I don't really agree that a forgiving format should be implemented here. This might very well be a matter of process than just technical. And sometimes, a rule is simply a rule and people need to learn about that once - important is how you teach them. Programming a forgiving input field costs heap

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad

I would definitely settle for WordPress. I have only little experience with Blogger, but I have used typepad.com and wordpress.com extensively. I have no idea about wordpress.org, since wordpress.com is more than sufficient for me and my needs and has all the flexibility I need, despite some limita

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Masters Programs in the DC Area

Matthew, I just finished my masters at GWU, located in DC at Foggy Bottom metro station. There are only a handful of UX/UI seminars or classes. There are a handful of cognitive psychology classes that can be taken to augment your the required 10 classes but all-in-all it's a heavily computer scien

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Blogger versus WordPress versus TypePad

I would also suggest WordPress as my preferred choice; although depending on the version you use, there are some usability bloopers that I found quite annoying in the past. For instance, if you use their on-line publishing interface, in some version, the highlighted button is the "save" button, eve